Dear members of the North Sea, North Western Waters and South Western Waters Advisory Councils, Dear members of the European Commission and the European Parliament Fisheries Committee Dear representatives of national administrations from France, UK, Ireland, Spain, Belgium and The Netherlands Dear invited and scientific experts, Dear observers, Thank you for your participation and involvement at the Inter AC Workshop on Seabass held last Thursday in Dublin. All presentations are now… Read More

THE BUCKLAND LECTURE 2014 Species without Borders: Science, Politics, Economics and Human Factors University College Dublin – UCD Science Wednesday, 29 October 2014 at 17:30 Dr Malcolm WinsorBuckland Professor 2014Former Secretary General of the North Atlantic Salmon Conservation Organisation (www.nasco.int) Are you interested in how we manage our fisheries and wildlife resources at an international level? Do you think the bodies involved do their job well? Are they effective? If not, why… Read More

We have been in the grip of an anticylonic system for nearly three weeks now, and it looks like its stuck for another few days, up to Sunday at least. But then on Monday we are released from its grasp and the week ahead looks really good for bass fishing – new moon, nice tides, a swing of systems to the south west and a mid week ‘perfect storm’. Imagine breaking white… Read More

I sat in terminal 2 at Dublin airport watching the match whilst awaiting the arrival of my French customers. Always tense moments an all Ireland final and the anticipation of a weeks guided fishing that lay ahead. This was one of the larger groups that I had guided in the past few years – there was Philippe, Dennis and his wife Solange, and Giles and his wife Agnes. A challenge no doubt!… Read More

A little bit of fishing in your day – Jim

  ‘He looked across the sea and knew how alone he was now. But he could see the prisms in the deep dark water and the line stretching ahead and the strange undulation of the calm. The clouds were building up now for the trade wind and he looked ahead and saw a flight of wild ducks etching themselves against the sky over the water, then blurring, then etching again and he… Read More

46th PLENARY MEETING REPORT OF THE SCIENTIFIC, TECHNICAL AND ECONOMIC COMMITTEE FOR FISHERIES (PLEN-14-02) Section 6.3 – pages 51 to 59 pertain to the bass fisheries management If you would like to see more similar data/reports why not visit this link on my website HERE Scientific, technical and economical committee for fisheries //www.scribd.com/embeds/238335823/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&show_recommendations=true A little bit of fishing in your day – Jim

‘Keep warm old man’, the boy said. ‘Remember we are in September.’ ‘The month when the great fish come,’ the old man said. ‘Anyone can be a fisherman in May.’ Ernest Hemingway – The old man and the sea. A little bit of fishing in your day – Jim

The key to the slowdown in global warming in recent years could lie in the depths of the Atlantic and Southern Oceans where excess heat is being stored – not the Pacific Ocean as has previously been suggested, according to new research. But the finding suggests that a naturally occurring ocean cycle burying the heat will flip in around 15 years’ time, causing global temperature rises to accelerate again. Go HERE And… Read More